House Platforms and Hollow Ways in the Shrunken Medieval Village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn

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History & significance

Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn is a shrunken medieval village in Breconshire, Wales, containing archaeological remains of domestic occupation spanning the medieval period. The site preserves house platforms and hollow ways, linear depressions created by repeated passage of people and animals over centuries, which provide evidence of the settlement's former layout and organisation. The house platforms represent the foundations and floor levels of timber or stone dwellings, indicating the location and scale of medieval domestic structures within the village. These earthwork features, now largely abandoned and grass-covered, demonstrate the contraction of settlement that occurred in many Welsh upland communities during or after the medieval period, making the site valuable for understanding rural medieval habitation patterns and landscape change in post-conquest Wales.

House Platforms and Hollow Ways in the Shrunken Medieval Village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR220. View the official record →

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